Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Markham Moor
We build walls — retaining walls that hold a change in level across a sloping garden, boundary and front garden walls, low walls that frame a patio or raise a planting bed, and the piers and steps that go with them. A retaining wall is a structural job rather than a decorative one: it needs footings dug to the right depth, the correct blockwork or masonry behind the face, and drainage built in behind it so water pressure does not build up and push it out over the following winters. We match brick and stone to the house as closely as the materials allow, and finish copings and caps so the top line of the wall runs true.
Working in Markham Moor
Markham Moor sits on the A1 between Retford and Tuxford, a small settlement in open Nottinghamshire countryside surrounded by farmland and scattered villages. Properties here tend toward the rural end of the range — older brick and pantile houses, converted farm buildings and detached properties on larger, more open plots than you find in the towns. That brings its own considerations: longer driveway approaches where the surface has to carry heavier vehicles as well as cars, exposed boundaries where planting and walling do genuine work in sheltering a garden, and rear gardens with the space for a properly designed layout rather than a single paved area. Open farmland ground conditions vary, so base build-ups are assessed on site.
What's included
- Retaining walls with correct footings and drainage
- Boundary, front garden and raised bed walls
- Piers, steps and copings
- Brick and stone matched to the property